Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, condemned the leadership of Russia’s military in an eleven-minute audio clip posted ...

C to cooperate fully with the Chechnya Procuracy in order to investigate and prosecute the 342 cases of crimes allegedly commited throughout the war by Russian soldiers which it has compiled and ...

Ethnic within Russia ... Chechen rebel leader told the Express. Russia's army has heavily recruited soldiers from its ethnic minorities, who make up around 20% of the country's population. During ...

In fierce fighting, thousands of Russian soldiers were killed ... who became the new provincial president. No. Chechnya had been largely destroyed by war, with its roads and power plants and ...

While some have been fighting in the country since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and the war in the Donbas ... personnel, ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated ... his loyalty to the Russian president and called himself "Putin's foot soldier." Grozny's central street ...